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...Urals and Kemerovo in Siberia, authorities caved in and reinstated the transport benefits, if only temporarily. But scores of protesters were also charged with misdemeanors, such as violating public order and impeding transport. Pro-Putin Duma Deputy Andrei Isayev threatened punishment to "those who seek to carry the orange illness into Russia." Elsewhere, demonstrations continued into the weekend, and Russia's Federation of Independent Trade Unions declared itself ready "to organize protest actions, unless the authorities change federal and regional legislation" on the benefit cuts. After endorsing and promoting the new legislation last year, Putin has so far remained silent...
...first I was appalled by your choice for Person of the Year [Dec. 27--Jan. 3]. But then I remembered your criterion: the person who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill. I can't think of anyone in my lifetime who has affected more people's lives for ill than George W. Bush...
...biologist Nancy Hopkins ’64 said she felt physically ill as a result of listening to Summers’ speech at a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) luncheon, and she left the conference room half-way through the president’s remarks...
With 10 seconds remaining on the first of those minors, the Big Red appeared to have Grumet-Morris beaten, but the Evanston, Ill., native slid across the crease to kick the puck just wide to preserve the lead...
...Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln (Free Press; 295 pages) sex researcher C.A. Tripp argues that the four years Lincoln slept in the same bed with his friend Joshua Speed when the two lived in Springfield, Ill., as bachelors far surpassed what was common or necessary. Tripp also cites accounts from Washington wags of that period who noted that the 16th President regularly shared a bed with David Derickson, one of his guards, whenever his wife Mary Todd was out of town. Tripp throws in a handful of other bunkmates, Lincoln's bawdy sense of humor and his stormy relationship with...